Gouverneur Morris, a multiple Grade 1-placed son of Constitution, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Haras La Pasion in Argentina for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.
The 4-year-old was purchased by a group of Argentine breeders including Haras La Pasion, Haras Las Racies, and Haras La Nora to stand in the country full-time. He is currently under quarantine in Miami, Fla., as he awaits export.
Gouverneur Morris retired with two wins in five career starts for earnings of $247,500. Todd Pletcher trained the colt for owners Team Valor International and WinStar Farm. He was a $600,000 purchase at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.
The colt quickly generated attention as a juvenile with a nine-length debut win in Saratoga, followed by a runner-up effort in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland.
He came back at age three to draw off in an allowance optional claiming race at Tampa Bay Downs, setting a new track record for a mile and 40 yards in the process. Then, he moved forward on the Kentucky Derby trail with a fourth in the G1 Florida Derby, and a third in the rescheduled G1 Arkansas Derby, in what would be his final start.
Gouverneur Morris was knocked off the Derby trail last June after battling both a leg infection and colitis. He was tentatively scheduled to return to the races this spring, but it never materialized.
Bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall, Craig and Carrie Brogden, and James Miller, Gouverneur Morris is out of the stakes-placed Unbridled's Song mare Addison Run.
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